Reminds me of a symposium I attended at Stanford in 2000 titled "Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100?"[1][2]. (At the time, Bill Joy had written a p

Reminds me of a symposium I attended at Stanford in 2000 titled "Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100?"[1][2]. (At the time, Bill Joy had written a provocative cover story for Wired headlined "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us: Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species"[3] and this panel was assembled in response.) Glad to see that the backers of this new initiative agree with the more nuanced folks on that panel, like John Holland--that these will continue to be meaty questions to consider, both in computational and philosophical terms, well past 2100. [1] http://news.stanford.edu/news/2000/march29/robots-329.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2000/march29/robots-329.html [2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvW5zob1PPbbFUZK_LdzU8iJBSFb2Zhyb https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvW5zob1PPbbFUZK_LdzU... [3] http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html